Auschwitz
Subtitle: a new history
By: Laurence Rees
Publisher: MJF Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9781567319460
Copyright date: 2005
Subjects: Auschwitz (Concentration camp); Interviews; Holocaust survivors; War criminals; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); History
Other titles: How mankind committed the ultimate infamy at Auschwitz
Description: In 'Auschwitz: a new history', documentarian Laurence Rees excavates a wealth of information and offers a new perspective in his shocking portrait of this most infamous death camp. Informed by more than a hundred original interviews with survivors and Nazi perpetrators, Rees's study exposes the inner workings of the camp in unprecedented detail -- from the continually refined techniques of mass murder to the shrewd psychological manipulations of inmates, and from the unimaginable living conditions to the bizarre microcosms that emerged, such as the brothel and the dining hall, where the line between guard and prisoner became surprisingly blurred. -- Dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Surprising beginnings --; title: Orders and initiatives --; title: Factories of death --; title: Corruption --; title: Frenzied killing --; title: Liberation and retribution.